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Comment
. 2023 Sep 11:46:e228.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22002485.

Beware of the phony horserace between genes and environments

Sam Trejo  1 , Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko  2
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Beware of the phony horserace between genes and environments

Sam Trejo et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Although Burt provides a valuable critique of the scientific value of integrating genetic data into social science research, she reinforces rather than disrupts the age-old horserace between genetic effects and environmental effects. We must move past this false dichotomy to create a new ontology that recognizes the ways in which genetic and environmental processes are inextricably intertwined.

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